Strangers

Two different podcasts create very different experiences for two commuters riding the A Train, with disastrous results.

Arthur is a single dad, struggling with the care for his seven-year-old son Max and the combination of his secret life as a drag queen.

A synchronized swimming team has disappeared in the swimming pool during a performance. A patient of a water-therapy clinic has disappeared while taking a bath. How are these cases connected and how does a doll with real hair relate to it? An inspector with no unsolved cases will have to investigate that. She will also have to find out who she really is.

Six fresh short films on the topic "Own and Stranger" from even more fresh Estonian directors.

Zhenya Rodimtseva has to switch schools after her parents' divorce. Most of her classmates are from wealthy families. To blend in with the 'golden' youth and to get her classmate Boris to like her, Zhenya starts making up stories about her secure and carefree life. Unfinished film by Dinara Asanova, one of the most bright directors of «Lenfilm» studio and Soviet cinema as a whole.

Marcin is a professional soldier who is offered to participate in a mission in Kosovo. His partner Kamil doesn’t agree with the departure, though, so he puts his partner in a position where he has to choose between the love of his life and a career opportunity. And the whole situation gets even more complicated when Marcin’s mother gets involved and makes any decision completely impossible

The short film 'Odd Stranger' shows the dilemma of a boy who finds himself lost when pressed about his definitions of sexuality. The film is directed by Beto Oliveira and inspired by the poem "Every human being is a unique stranger" by Carlos Drummond de Andrade.

During the Chinese Civil War, part of the KMT (Chinese Nationalist) forces retreated to the Thai-Burma border region. Under international pressure, most of the troops were evacuated to Taiwan in 1961, yet some remained. In northern Thailand and in central Taiwan, the two groups shared a similar destiny while they were apart. Now that over 50 years have passed, their differences gradually emerge, and their descendants are struggling with their identity.

An unnamed village in the Podlasie region. The inhabitants lease out land which does not technically belong to them, but so far the operation has proceeded without problems. They keep to themselves, in seclusion, without interaction with the outside world. Then, suddenly, a nameless Stranger arrives. Given the situation of the village, none of the inhabitants know how to act, worried that the Strangers intentions might not be as harmless as promised. Krzysztof, the self-appointed Mayor and protector of the village, takes it upon himself to show the Stranger around, carefully avoiding the locals resistance. Together with a local driver, and his neighbour, a man who left the city for the country side, they silently circle the village, full of anxiety, not knowing the Strangers reason for being here...

Bonar, a filmmaker from Jakarta, goes to a hotel at Pelabuhan Ratu beach to search for his new film's inspiration. On day three, suddenly, he loses his laptop when the hotel housekeeper cleaning his room. Bonar asks the hotel staff to investigate who stole his laptop. Then, something mystic happens. It's odd that, suddenly, all people at and around the hotel only speak in Sundanese, neither in Indonesian nor in other languages. Bonar is puzzled because he cannot talk in Sundanese. Then, a mysterious woman named Lilis comes and speaks in Indonesian. She asserts about knowing the stealer's suspect. However, in one condition that Bonar needs to help Lilis for creating a film about the romance story of her grandparents.

Two strangers meet and spend a day together.

Orphaned by the brutal Soviet collectivization campaign of the 1930s, a young Kazakh boy takes to the mountains and lives amongst a pack of wolves.

Ugne, a mother of two, who is abandoned by her husband Ignas after 15 years of living together. Ignas is about to marry the architect who designed their home, while Ugne is drowning in sadness and self-doubt.

A classic Egyptian film noir starring Omar Sharif who is trying to find out the mysterious circumstances under which his brother was killed. This gem also features the belly dancer Samia Gamal and features some of her famous exotic dancing tableaux.

It’s a black comedy movie whose story is a day's journey of a movie director who got an offer to make a movie with a best-selling book called Dinner with Jesus.

This film explores the pain and sorrow after the loss of a loved one. An onging search for oneself and the meaning of life. It goes into loneliness and detachment from reality. Finding the desired catharsis in the end.

A businessman from the big city, while staying at a remote town dreams that he is being chased by people who believe him to be a vampire.

How to find your way in a suburb of the mega-city of Seoul, that is just one of the things this North Korean refugee hasn't learnt on his citizenship course. He gets lost as soon as he is on his own. At least he speaks Korean.

At the funeral of her husband, grandma Xiu-ying looks not sad and even hangs out with her childhood sweetheart Chi happily like a girl. Astonished by her behavior, her grandson Yu-chen and his pregnant wife Jie-ru worry about her and brings her back to Taipei. After living together, they find Xiu-ying’s memory and behavior even more strange and diagnosed with Dementia. The doctor explains Xiu-ying may fall into memory at any time, so if they want to understand how to comfort Xiu-ying’s fear and aggression, they need to know more about her relationship with her husband or other close males. However, just when Yu-chen and Jie-ru are still busy building their new life and trying to understand more about grandma, Xiu-ying not only attacks her caretaker and insists accompany Chi only.

Sujin runaway girl living in an empty house with the mineral water. They are always hungry and have no money, so the lure of prostitution Sujin is unavoidable. Vacant colder day jimyeonseo haven anymore, which can not be realized.